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Nature Mage
Duncan Pile

Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2011
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This is an exciting new fantasy series that fans of Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and Septimus Heap will absolutely love to read. Excitingly for Lovereading4kids we were approached by the author in early 2011 who showed us the first three chapters of Nature Mage and even though we aren't a publisher we could see the potential so have been encouraging and advising him on his publishing journey. When Duncan won a publishing deal in a competition he was able to turn his manuscript into a book and now it's here for your 11+ readers to enjoy. Duncan says of his book 'I wrote my book out of pure passion. I simply started it one day on instinct and have never looked back. I feel people should read Nature Mage because every single person who has read it and spoken/written to me of it so far has said the same thing: It is a page turner, they love my characters, and can't put it down.' Read an extract today. Click here to read an interview with author Duncan Pile in Leftlion magazine about how he came to write Nature Mage. Click here to read about Duncan Pile's publishing journey - great for any newbie authors. ]]> http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/book/7313/Nature-Mage-by-Duncan-Pile.html

The Other Life
Susanne Winnacker

Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2012
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Beautifully formed and gut-wrenchingly gripping, this is essential reading.  Here at Lovereading we're glad to see the back of too much paranormal publishing and pleased to see a new theme - dystopian fiction - coming to the fore.  The worry will be that it gets to be, like paranormal, an overpublished area in time but for the moment there are some really cracking books.  The Other Life is absolutely no exception.  Terrific characterisation and a setting so well portrayed that you can almost smell the world that Sherry and Joshua inhabit.  With an incredible twist at the end which you absolutely will not know about until you read it this is an incredible debut novel not to be missed.  ]]> http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/book/7308/The-Other-Life-by-Susanne-Winnacker.html

Someone Else's Life
Katie Dale

Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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A totally gripping roller-coaster of a story about family secrets, relationships and deceit.  It's Jodi Picoult for teens and a wonderfully engaging debut from a talented young author who won the 2008 SCBWI Undiscovered Voices competition. ]]> http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/book/7287/Someone-Else-s-Life-by-Katie-Dale.html

Socks Are Not Enough
Mark Lowery

Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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A piece of Passion from the Publisher: We at Scholastic Children’s Books are very proud to be publishing Socks Are Not Enough by Mark Lowery in February 2012.  It genuinely takes a lot to make me laugh – especially out loud. So it may have surprised my colleagues when I spent an entire afternoon at my desk snorting with amusement. “What is SO funny?” they enquired. I proceeded to read them extract after extract of the “really hilarious submission” I was reading. Yes – that submission was the wonderful SOCKS ARE NOT ENOUGH, Mark Lowery’s debut novel. The protagonist, Michael Swarbrick, is the ultimate geek. But every reader of Socks Are Not Enough will very much identify with him. I know I certainly did.  Anyone who remembers being 14 will recall the same cringe-worthy embarrassment at their parents’ or best friend’s behaviour as Michael does on coming home to discovering his parents are secret nudists – and ready to go public! Sure, my parents weren’t nudists like Michael’s. But my dad did drop me at school on the back of his vintage motorbike which constantly backfired! Any book that makes the reader recall their formative teenage years with so much laughter is one that mustn’t be missed – you’ll even enjoy it if those years are still to come. ]]> http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/book/7163/Socks-Are-Not-Enough-by-Mark-Lowery.html